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  • All Packed Up and Ready to Go

    You've bought all the gifts--the budget is spent. Everything is wrapped. The laundry is done and the car is packed for the drive to wherever. It could be just across town to Grandma's or it could be across country to Aunt Susie's (does anyone have an Aunt Susie?). The kids are hyper--after all it is Christmas (or whatever holiday you are celebrating). How on earth are you going to survive the car ride, the train ride, the wait in the airport? Maybe you should just go back to bed... Luckily...

  • Family Game Night

    Two weeks off of school. Yes, there are all those new presents to play with, but you know you are still going to hear, "I'm Bored". The holiday time is a wonderful for family togetherness and a great way to spend time together is to play games. Everyone can have fun playing games--even Mom and Dad. Think back to your own childhood. The same games we played then are there for you to play with your children. Here are the games that are in our toy closet: Monopoly Scrabble Boggle Sorry...

  • It's a Puzzle

    It's a Puzzle with only 9 pieces. A piece of cake you say. Oh no, this is one of hardest puzzles you will ever do. You will get 8 pieces in the right place and the 9th isn't right and you need to start again. The object of the Scramble Squares® puzzle game is to arrange the nine colorfully illustrated square pieces into a 12" x 12" square so that the realistic graphics on the pieces' edges match perfectly to form a completed design in every direction. This fun for the whole...

  • Brain Food--Another Great Stocking Stuffer or Teacher Gift

    Remember Silly Putty? Remember how much fun it was to mush it up in your hands and then stretch it until it was so thin it broke. Well... the fun people at Fat Brain Toys, have taken Silly Putty to a whole new level. It is so absolutely cool. From their Website: The most tantalizing, mesmerizing mass of gelatinous dough you'll ever see or pleasure in handling . Our Brains are Healthy. The Putty is Responsible."Putty for your hands...A playground for your mind. Engaging the imagination &...

  • Tangles--Perfect Stocking Stuffer for All Ages

    Put a Tangle Toy in front of me and I'll play with it forever. If you have a Tangle Toy on your desk, everyone who comes in to talk to you will play with it throughout the conversation. You just can't put a tangle down. According to Tangle Creations, "The Tangle Toy is not your traditional toy for children. Tangles are based on the concept of infinity and continuous motion. This ‘magic in the motion’ that you feel when you play with a Tangle is truly therapeutic and calming to the soul...

  • Hexabits and Puzzbit

    Hexabits and Puzzibits - what are they? If you are a visual learner you must go to their website, it is one of the best toy websites I've seen. If you would rather learn by reading, just continue... The people at kidestore.co.uk has the best explanation. They are made from soft 100% RECYCLED plastic and are 6 sided , hexagonal shaped , plastic building pieces that are pliable and virtually indestructible. Using a patented interlocking design ( peg to loop weaving method ) you can build almost...

  • Design Your Own Clothes

    Paper Fashions from Klutz was one of my daughter's favorite gifts last year. It has been an entire year and she is still using it and actually asked for additional paper so that she can continue designing pants, skirts, dresses, jackets, belts, and all kinds of shirts. According to my daughter some of the positives of the package is that one tracing stencil can be used to make multiple designs, as many 5 different things. She also likes all of the different patterns. She used the book for tips...

  • Mozart Music Cube

    Introducing your child to the sounds of musical instruments at a young age, can keep them them interested in all types of music throughout their lives. There are many ways of doing that including just listening to classical records and pointing out the different sounds. Unfortunately, I am was not introduce to these as a small child, I cannot tell a french horn from a trumpet. My two year old nephews can. They listen to music with their dad and can point out each time a different instrument is added...

  • Play not Therapy

    Parents who are raising children with disabilities often forget that there is a difference between therapy and play. In order to accomplish their therapeutic goals, children often play with toys. When it looks like a specific toy or piece of equipment is helping your child, you run out and buy it for him/her to "play" with it at home. Because your child must have the best chance and opportunity to develop. Therapy is work. I know, I just came back from physical therapy for my leg and it...

  • Sprig Vehicles

    These two You Tube videos say it all about Sprig Vehicles. If you are looking for a fun, great green toy for a preschooler, you have found it. Learn about Sprig Vehicles Learn more I love the story of the creation of Sprig Toys from their website: The Seeds Of Change Once upon a time, there were four talented toy designers who were taking the industry by storm. Their award-winning toys were selling like hotcakes. They were happy and successful. Then one day the designers visited the factories that...
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  • Good Deals as Time Runs Out

    For the last week, Amazon has been sending me information about Toy Deals almost every day. I chose not to share them with you because so many of the toys being offered, weren't the toys I believed in. They had batteries or were used on the computer or had no imagination to them. Today, they sent me a list of about 50 pages of different deals. I don't want you to miss a great deal on one of the toys we have talked about and you didn't get because it was just on the side of being too expensive...
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  • Tween Gift--Kubit2Me

    If you haven't bought that last gift for the tween girl on your list, we have it right here. I say "we" because we have a guest blogger with us who has played the game and has given it 4.5 stars out of 5. Here is what grown ups from the company say about the, Kubit2me Truth or Dare edition --Hilarious, honest & revolutionary twist on a party favorite! Players toss Kubit2me from player to player for a new & funky spin on the hottest game around! Will it be truth OR dare? You...

  • Balls, Balls, Balls Part II

    Yesterday we talked about sensory balls. Today we are going to talk about balls that are easy to catch. I was a horrible athlete growing up (my daughter would say that I shouldn't put a time limit on it and that I am still horrible). I couldn't catch a ball if my life depended on it. When I was the softball team they put me so far out in left field, I couldn't even tell when an inning was over. It scarred me for life : ) So to have balls that are easier to catch is so great. They are...

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  • Balls, Balls, Balls

    One of my favorite first birthday gift to give, is to find a huge bag and fill them with all sorts of different balls. The balls will be used for years to come. I always put balls for all ages and abilities in the bag and then I know it will be used for years to come. My son got a bag of balls 15 years ago, and we still have the basketball and football that we play with. I figure that most of you can find regular balls all on your own without my suggestions, so I will let you hit all of the discount...
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